> I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because
> I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to
> be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original
> poster complained about not knowing how to even change directories. Would
> it be so difficult to add alias dir="ls -F --color=tty" to the bash
> defaults in the distro? I don't think so, and setting up some aliases for
> ease of use was among the first things I did when I got going. Little
> things like this go a long way. Yeah, it might be a little more complex,
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
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